Delighted to share the good news: Our HCR2/HSBP paper is now published online in EMBO J The EMBO Journal ! Arabidopsis HEAT SHOCK FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN is required to limit meiotic crossovers and HEI10 transcription | The EMBO Journal embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Congratulations to the co-lead authors Juhyun and Jihye, as well as the co-authors of POSTECH and UK. I thank Christophe Lambing and Ian Ian Henderson for their full support, and our colleagues (Gregory Copenhaver, Avraham, Scott, Chris, raphael mercier, Mathilde) for kindly sharing materials.

It turns out that FANCM promotes class I crossovers and suppresses class II crossovers in wheat. See our latest work nature.com/articles/s4146… University of Leicester Ian Henderson Cristobal Uauy

If you liked or missed the preprint, "The megabase-scale crossover landscape is largely independent of sequence divergence", here is an improved version nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our work on SPO11 and PRD3 (Mer2 homologue) is online. I started this study during my PhD, continued it during my postdoc and completed it in my lab. Great journey and fantastic collaborative effort! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Unravelling mechanisms that govern meiotic crossover formation in wheat | James D Higgins | pubmed.gov/35901450

Having a great time in Taiwan. I am looking forward to visiting IMB & IPMB and give a seminar.

What a day! Hongtao Zhang finishes the first #ISPA2022DE day with a BIG story and how it contributes to hypoxia responses in plants

The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Julian Hibberd as our new Head of Department ! 🌿🌾 Read more here 👇 plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/professor…

Excellent PhD opportunity to work on a multi-disciplinary project to understand the cause of wheat sensitivity to temperature stress in meiosis and to develop strategies to provide stable yield under climate change research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosystems…

Cycles of satellite and transposon evolution in the Arabidopsis pancentromere - now published nature nature.com/articles/s4158… Collaborative work from the teams of @PlantEvolution, Alexandros Bousios, ourselves and many others! Artwork by Ella Marushchenko

Excited to share our recent work on #meiosis in neo-allopolyploid #Arabidopsis suecica! Congrats to our talented PhD student Floriane Chéron for her first first-author paper! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

I am pleased to announce that we are hosting the 2024 Monogram conference and registration is now open. rothamsted.ac.uk/event/monogram…

Delighted to announce that our paper, 'Control of meiotic crossover interference by a proteolytic chaperone network,' has been published in Nature Plants! Grateful to co-first authors Heejin, Jaeil, and our other co-authors Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4147…

Our review on strategies to integrate genome editing with omics, artificial intelligence and advanced farming technologies to increase crop productivity is now published in Plant Communications. Great collaborations! cell.com/plant-communic…